Sentence examples for extortionate rates from inspiring English sources

Loan sharks, charging extortionate rates of interest, thrive.

Payday loan companies lent money at sometimes extortionate rates, occasionally rising to over 5,000% pa.

In Islam, too, usury, credit at extortionate rates – like Wonga or whatever offer – is forbidden.

Moneylenders are common across rural India, often providing loans at extortionate rates.

Unfortunately extortionate rates for snorkelling and water sports priced this humble backpacker out of the market.

People with pre-existing health conditions pay extortionate rates for their insurance, if they can get it at all.

Delay would be paid for at an extortionate rate; ten minutes could cost her an hour if she hit the M50 at the wrong time.

This means the real risk has transferred back to the public; so the public is being charged an extortionate rate for lending money to banks it now part-owns for investment that it largely underwrites.

With the interest increasing at an extortionate rate, Kaur says she scraped together $5,000.

Under the agreement, Iceland guarantees payment of the 20,000-euro minimum amounting to a total U.K. and Dutch claim of 3.7 billion euros at the extortionate rate of 5.5% for 15 years.

My phone becomes developmentally disabled the second I enter the USA unless I'm prepared to pay some extortionate rate for international cellular connection.